Chad wrote:
>so they'd have to pay you for your time.
a) When a company does a systemwide upgrade, they do it by department.
b) If they are smart, the contract will not be on hours worked, but on
people trained.
>so their lost productivity doesn't start going down until they get to
be with you.
a) That lost productivity will occur when the upgrade to MSO x+1
occurs, so that cancels that "expense" out.
b) Most companies will have a transition period, when botht eh old
software, and the new software is on a system.
> the lost productivity would be made right off the bat,
a) You have that same lost productivity when the migration to MSO x+1 occurs.
b) Most companies will provide manuals for the software, that
employees can study/refer to. [Which means that some employees won't
need the official training, because they will have studied it, prior
to getting into the "training class". ]
>they could just as easily invest in a 4 hour training class for the
new version of MSO and the productivity boost would be equitiable.
Only if the MSO training was on how to use an editor, how to use
drawing software, how to use a spreadsheet, how to create a database,
etc.
Typically, MSO training ignores the fact that spreadsheets are not
databases, and powerpoint is not for creating videos, and Outlook is
not a tool for creating, much less sending webpages.
>Switching to OpenOffice.org costs more than upgrading to MSO
> The only residual negative difference of having switched to OOo would be the
> new employees who only knew Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Access.
That same issue occurs, when the company doesn't use the same version
of MSO as the employee knows.
> This is all making one *HUGE* assumption.
> That OpenOffice.org still exists the next time a major upgrade is needed.
a) What is the reason for the major upgrade?
b) What are the _compelling_ reasons, that actually improve the
productivity of the company, for upgrading?
>If Sun ever drops its backing of OOo, I doubt OOo would last a year.
a) Possible, but not probable.
If Sun were to drop OOo, there would be a vacuum for OOo, in that all
of the Collabnet tools would disappear.
However, there are at least two, and possibly three or four forks of OOo.
My major question would be whether Sourceforge would be willing to
host OOo, or whatever arises when Sun drops it.
b) The company would be using semi-orphaned software. It also has the
source code, so it could, if it so desired, continue development. [A
number of companies are in the position of using orphaned software
that is closed.]
xan
jonathon
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